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| Name: | USS Bluford |
| Registry: | NCC-644 |
| Class: | Gagarin |
| Type: | science scout |
| Affiliation: | Federation Starfleet |
| Status: | active (as of 2312) |
USS Bluford (NCC-644) was a Gagarin-class science scout active in the late 23rd and early 24th centuries.
In 2298, Bluford intercepted several subspace communications bursts in a heretofore unknown language. Among the communications specialists on board who struggled to decipher the transmissions was Ensign Hugh Sesay. Years later, these were found to be from a ship of the Tzenkethi Coalition. (Star Trek: Avenger: "Nearly a Valediction")
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The ship was named after Guion Bluford (b. 1942), the first African-American astronaut.
| Gagarin-class starships |
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| USS Bluford - USS Bondarenko - USS Christa McAuliffe - USS Cooper - USS Grissom - USS Leonov - USS McCandless - USS McKay - USS Ride - USS Shepard - USS Tereshkova - USS Thagard |